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  • Parsimony and Other Radical Ideas About Justice

    Edited by Jeremy Travis, Bruce Western ...
    **How to envision a justice system that combines the least possible punishment with the greatest possible healing, from an all-star cast of contributors“An extraordinary and long overdue collection offering myriad ways that we can and must completely overhaul the way we imagine as well as implement ‘justice.’”—Heather Ann Thompson, historian and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Blood in the Water* ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Parsimony and Other Radical Ideas About Justice

    Edited by Jeremy Travis, Bruce Western ...
    How to envision a justice system that combines the least possible punishment with the greatest possible healing, from an all-star cast of contributors"An extraordinary and long overdue collection offering myriad ways that we can and must completely overhaul the way we imagine as well as implement 'justice.'"—Heather Ann Thompson, historian and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Blood in the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Homeward

    Life in the Year After Prison

    by Bruce Western ...
    In the era of mass incarceration, over 600,000 people are released from federal or state prison each year, with many returning to chaotic living environments rife with violence. In these circumstances, how do former prisoners navigate reentering society? In Homeward, sociologist Bruce Western examines the tumultuous first year after release from prison. Drawing from in-depth interviews with over ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Between Class and Market

    Postwar Unionization in the Capitalist Democracies

    by Bruce Western ...
    In the United States, less than one worker in five is currently in a labor union, while in Sweden, virtually the entire workforce is unionized. Despite compelling evidence for their positive effects, even the strongest European unions are now in retreat as some policymakers herald the U.S. model of market deregulation. These differences in union power significantly affect workers' living standards ... Read more

    $45.39 USD

  • The Society of Captives

    A Study of a Maximum Security Prison

    by Gresham M. Sykes ...
    The Society of Captives, first published in 1958, is a classic of modern criminology and one of the most important books ever written about prison.Gresham Sykes wrote the book at the height of the Cold War, motivated by the world's experience of fascism and communism to study the closest thing to a totalitarian system in American life: a maximum security prison. His analysis calls into question ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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    Homeward

    Life in the Year After Prison

    by Bruce Western ...
    Narrated by Eric Michael Summerer ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 45 min

    In the era of mass incarceration, over 600,000 people are released from federal or state prison each year, with many returning to chaotic living environments rife with violence. In these circumstances, how do former prisoners navigate reentering society? In Homeward, sociologist Bruce Western examines the tumultuous first year after release from prison. Drawing from in-depth interviews with over ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline, Second Edition

    Edited by Anthony J. Nocella II, Priya Parmar, David Stovall ...
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    The school-to-prison pipeline is a national concern, from the federal to local governments, and a leading topic in conversations in the field of urban education and juvenile justice. From Education to Incarceration: Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline is a ground-breaking book that exposes the school system’s direct relationship to the juvenile justice system. The book reveals various tenets ... Read more

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  • For the Children?

    Protecting Innocence in a Carceral State

    by Erica R. Meiners ...
    “Childhood has never been available to all.” In her opening chapter of For the Children?, Erica R. Meiners stakes the claim that childhood is a racial category often unavailable to communities of color. According to Meiners, this is glaringly evident in the U.S. criminal justice system, where the differentiation between child and adult often equates to access to stark disparities. And what is ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • The Behavioral Code

    The Hidden Ways the Law Makes Us Better . or Worse

    by Benjamin van Rooij, Adam Fine ...
    An American Psychology-Law Society’s Lawrence S. Wrightsman Book Award WinnerA 2022 PROSE Award finalist in Legal Studies and CriminologyA 2022 American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award FinalistA Behavioral Scientist’s Notable Book of 2021Freakonomics for the law—how applying behavioral science to the law can fundamentally change and explain misbehavior</... ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • Locked In

    The True Causes of Mass Incarceration-and How to Achieve Real Reform

    by John Pfaff ...
    **A groundbreaking reassessment of the American prison system, challenging the widely accepted explanations for our exploding incarceration rates“A must-read for anyone who dreams of an America that is not the world’s most imprisoned nation.” —Chris Hayes, host of MSNBC’s All In**In Locked In, John Pfaff argues that the factors most commonly cited to explain mass incarceration -- the failed War on ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Smarter Crime Control

    A Guide to a Safer Future for Citizens, Communities, and Politicians

    by Irvin Waller ...
    The U.S. is the world´s biggest jailor and one of the most affluent murderous countries, and yet its citizens pay more taxes to sustain law and order than their European counterparts. Yet, the U.S. has the most data in the world on the use of incarceration and its failure. Its researchers have identified more projects able to prevent violence than the rest of the world put together. Its ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • When Brute Force Fails

    How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment

    by Mark A. R. Kleiman ...
    Cost-effective methods for improving crime control in AmericaSince the crime explosion of the 1960s, the prison population in the United States has multiplied fivefold, to one prisoner for every hundred adults—a rate unprecedented in American history and unmatched anywhere in the world. Even as the prisoner head count continues to rise, crime has stopped falling, and poor people and minorities ... Read more

    $26.69 USD